Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08
4 Ml;VTERIOUS CRIuE

YOUNG WOMAN FOUND MURDERED At RAN
WAY, \. J.-BOTH VICTIM AND MURDERER
UNKNOWN.
Early ON Saturday morning, March 9G,
some farmers driving into the city Of Rah-
way, N. j., along Central avenue, found
the dead body of woman, about - years
Of age Her head had been jammed into
the mud, and the heel marks ON her cheek
showed that AN attempt had had been made
to dishgure her beyond recognition Her
throat was cut, her clothing torn and her
arms were twisted in an unnatural position.
She had been a handsome woman, with u
noticeably good figure and small hands aud
feet. She wore kid gloves and nicely fitting
shoes and while her clothing was not all
made to match in goods or style of cut. it
fitted her figure completely. Her black
straw turban hat was trimmed with red
ribbon, and it was observed that all her
| belongings were Of foreign make par
asol found near her had the trade mark
''Ivanhoe' and at the top in faded gold let
tering were the words 'Semper srcco.' a
dainty willow basket containing some un-
| broken eggs was found near by, and in a
/ brook that crosses the avenue a policeman
/ discovered hand satchel, containing dress
Is and Undertaking. A blood stained
| knife of foreign manufacture and not now
/ in the market was picked up in an AL Join
ing field. \ brown wrap was torn to tat
tiers, hut silk sack was not much injured
Attached to the valise was u tag from
] xklt lu-
been in existence for 10 years The heb
nailed heels of her xiii shoes showed that
they were not made in thi, country, and
her clothing proved IN be- about what a
| Danish woman would wear.
This is the cHsc. She was evidently
stranger IN Railway. aud the inference was
that she had landed ut Castle Garden She
certainly was dressed better than the aver
age emigrant, and her banged hair and
rich clothing made her look "A little cut Of
character as new arrival and yet she
wore Danish wedding ring and was dress
ed in every way IN foreign style.
The first definite suspicion, and the one
that still occupies the attention of the de
tectiveS, connects the name If William
heech with the tragedy. He is a worth
less fellow who has "A son in prison and IA
wife ON Blackwell's island 1T is foolish. -
as he was buying IA new stove, TO bother
about a wife when one can go to Castle
Garden and get one at any time "
keech lives with "A family named Fruatt,
and the unfortunate woman was going
away from this house toward Railway when
assaulted. little son of James Brunt
one Of the coroners jury, claimed that he
had seen the murdered woman at Fruatts
aud that he had also seen her display
roll OF bills. Brunt thereupon appealed
tn Justice Lambert to issue warrant for
keech's arrest, but the Justice not only re
fused, but told Brunt that he would make
had friends for himself il he did not mind
his own business. Public opinion is much
down OH Lambert for his singular conduct,
but meantime Keech walks the street and
no one molests him For some reason the
detectives are working up all sorts Of clews
but that of Keech himself They have
been following up IA group of three Ger
mans-A woman and two men-Who had all
excited conversation at the Cnurtland st
ferry at New York on the very Friday of
the murder. They had secured ticket, for
Railway, and one of the men had warned
the woman not to 90, as she would get in
~ trouble. The woman Was dressed like
the victim. Conductor Gee, tou, renem-
hers passenger on the same night who
kept her face from him when presenting
her ticket and got off at the function. "
800 feet from the scene of the tragedy.
But the strangest thing about the ease is
the number Of positive identfcutions that
have resulted. The face of the victim
seems 10 have resembled half of the young
women who are missing in New York and
Jersey. Superintendent Harrison Of the
Newark city home declared that it was Ma
ry Maltby, a former inmate, but Mary
Maltby put in AN appearance at the Rah
way police station in state of mind at the
story c. II. Eldridge of Brooklyn recog-
uized the body as that Of Mary Cregan, a
missing servant and believed it until Ma
ry wrote him letter. The next case was
that of Lows Ostberg, Swedish girl, who
lived in Grand street Railway, who is miss
ing. The photograph has been also fully
) identified as that of LOWS, but her own as
sociates claim that she never hanged her
hair, and now the detectives are waiting
for LOWS to write Boston man. named
, Neary, visited the morgue aud said that il
was his sister Kate, and the weary officer
locked the man up until he was glad enough
! 10 confess that he was drawn to Railway
from curiosity. And 50 the fruitless chas,
runs through dozens of cases but asid,
, from young German, named Anthony
Knoll, arrested at Jersey City with blooC
ON his clothing, the authorities have moth
ing TO show for their detective work. Tn,
J impression all along has been that the CIR
was killed by man living at Railway, AN,
that the motive was money. She was no
T. outraged, but the fact that she was a strang
err and new arrival seems to have throw
the detectives completely from the trail.